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CBC News: Alan Rickman dead at 69
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Son of a.....I'm sorry to sound a bit callous but, David Bowie I could understand and expect. Alan Rickman on the other hand...
Gruber in Die Hard, Harry in Love Actually, and his role in Galaxy Quest.
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Oh, hell, my sister's going to be devastated; she's a big fan of his. I've always teased her that her high opinion of Severus Snape was mostly because Rickman played him.
Don't forget his role as the genocide-planning squatter in Quigley Down Under, and as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves -- ATT called the Sheriff "Deliciously villainous and by far the most very interesting character in the movie."
Oh, and his good-guy role as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility. Noteworthy because when he smiles in the final scene, it seems like he drops ten years of age.
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Metatron in Dogma.
And yeah. A lot of the love of Snape was because of the brilliant job Alan did playing him. A role he took in large part because his grandkids loved Harry Potter so much. The various child actors in that series had so many wonderful stories about him. It's a hell of a loss.
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After I saw this I had to inform my sister by text. The line that came to mind for me was "At least he didn't use a spoon"
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Another deeply-felt loss for the world. Rickman was a great artist -- and after reading the CBC article I'm going to go look for the films he directed.
(And ten points to the actual Sheriff of Nottingham for his tribute to Rickman.)
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I remember one of his minor roles more than I do him being in Die Hard: The January Man.
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The January Man
01-15-2016, 08:58 PM
He was brilliant in the January man - as a film it is a guilty pleasure - the sheer quantity and quality of the actors in that film is breathtaking; and everyone was told to give it their all. The story is secondary to the performances.
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